War and Media Network

The War and Media Network

The aim of the WAM Network is to establish productive dialogue between academics and practitioners interested in the relationship between war and media

Events

The WAM Network promotes and hosts events including conferences, book launches, exhibitions, film screenings, talks and more. Join the network to promote your event or find out about events

Publications

The WAM Network provides information about new and forthcoming publications relevant to the subject of war and media including articles, books, blog posts and special issues

Media, War and Conflict Journal

The WAM Network has direct links with the international journal ‘Media, War and Conflict’ that maps the shifting arena of war, conflict and terrorism in our intensively mediated age.

First World War Centenary on WAM

The WAM Network is marking the First World War Centenary from 2014-2018 with a dedicated area of the website and a Special Issue of the Media, War and Conflict Journal.

Welcome to the War and Media Network

The War and Media Network recognises the intersection between war and media as an important area of research and debate. The aim of the War and Media Network is to establish productive dialogue between academics and practitioners interested in the relationship between war and media including - but not limited to - journalists, policy makers, military members, researchers, artists, authors and film-makers. Join the network to keep in touch and up to date with relevant news and events.

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New Book: Cyprus and its Conflicts. Representations, Materialities, and Cultures

January 8, 2018 January 9, 2018Publications 0

Edited by Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier http://berghahnbooks.com/title/DoudakiCyprus Introduction available here Publisher: Berghahn Books; 1 edition (November 30, 2017) ISBN 978-1-78533-724-6 Hb eISBN 978-1-78533-725-3 eBook BOOK DESCRIPTION The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the site of enduring political, military, and economic conflict. This interdisciplinary collection takes Cyprus as a geographical, cultural and …

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Call for Papers: COMMEMORATION AND CREATIVITY

January 8, 2018 January 8, 2018Events 0

Postgraduate Forum Saturday 10 March 2018, 9am-5pm Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Headington Road, OX3 0BP This exciting Postgraduate Creative Forum is part of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation, which explores and compares the ways in which commemorative practices across cultures both contribute to and challenge post-war …

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Deadline 10th Jan CFP: Spaces of War, War of Spaces

January 8, 2018 January 9, 2018Events 0

Media, War and Conflict Journal 10th Anniversary Conference May 22nd-23rd 2018 Accademia Europea Di Firenze, Florence, Italy. Deadline for abstracts: 10th January 2018 Keynote: Professor Andrew Hoskins: MWC Founding Editor and Interdisciplinary Research Professor, University of Glasgow Film Screening: ‘The Faces We Lost’ Film Screening with Q&A with Director and Scholar …

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CFP: Pictures of War: The Still Image in Conflict since 1945

November 27, 2017 November 27, 2017Events 0

Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester UK 24th & 25th May 2018. (Deadline for CFP: January 12, 2018) A conference on the intersections of conflict and pictures from the end of WWII until today. Since the end of World War II, the nature and depiction of geopolitical conflicts have changed in technology, …

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CFP: Spaces of War, War of Spaces

November 23, 2017 November 23, 2017Events 0

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No Man’s Land: Women’s Photography and the First World War

November 14, 2017 November 14, 2017Events, WW1 Centenary Events 0

Impressions Gallery, Bradford Until 30 December 2017 Curated by Dr Pippa Oldfield, No Man’s Land brings together rarely seen photographs made by women during the First World War, alongside contemporary works made by female artists a century later. Admission is free and more details, including links to press and a …

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Media and Mass Atrocity: the Rwanda Genocide and Beyond

November 13, 2017 November 13, 2017Events 0

Round table at Carleton University, Dec. 1-3, 2017 Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication, in collaboration with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University, will host a major international round table – Media and Mass Atrocity: …

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War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflict

October 19, 2017 October 19, 2017Publications 0

by Joanna Bourke Reaktion Books £40.00 This sumptuously illustrated volume, edited by eminent war historian Joanna Bourke, offers a comprehensive visual, cultural and historical account of the ways in which armed conflict has been represented in art. Covering the last two centuries, the book shows how the artistic portrayal of …

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Documentary Screening of John Gianvito

October 18, 2017 October 18, 2017Events 0

Saturday 4th Nov to Monday 6th Nov The Centre for Film & Ethics at Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with Close-Up Cinema, is pleased to present American documentary director John Gianvito’s complete seminal diptych For Example, the Philippines over one weekend. A screening of Vapor Trail (Clark) (2010) on Saturday, 4 November will …

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CFP: Representing and Remembering War

October 16, 2017 October 16, 2017Events 0

An international conference investigating war, literature, and art at the United States Air Force Academy on September 20-21, 2018 solicits both disciplinary and interdisciplinary presentations on “Representing and Remembering War.” The conference seeks a variety of genre submissions, both critical and creative, including literary criticism, journalism, rhetorical analysis, cultural …

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CFP: Wilfred Owen and Beyond

August 28, 2017 August 28, 2017Events 0

26th to 29th October 2018 The Oxford Centre for Life Writing, in partnership with the Western Front Association and the Wilfred Owen Association, is pleased to be hosting a conference to mark the centenary of Wilfred Owen’s death. Call For Papers: The closing date for submissions is Friday 20 October …

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America’s Digital Army: Games at Work and War

July 11, 2017 July 11, 2017Publications 0

By Robertson Allen “A rigorous and fascinating glimpse of what is more than just one online game. America’s Digital Army opens up crucial issues about the conflation of war and work, play and drill, pleasure and simulation, as well as the labor involved in the production of the militarized, fear-ridden cultural politics of …

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